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Locality: Tarazout, Sidi Rahal, Morocco
Description: "Pink amethyst" is a trade name for these geodes from Tarazout in the Sidi Rahal area of Morocco's Atlas Mountains. They are agate and chalcedony nodules, and only some contain a little pale amethyst.
The nodules formed in cavities in Triassic volcanic rock, and some still carry a dark green-grey crust of that rock. A study in GIA's Gems & Gemology (Fall 2013) found that the pink outer rim of Sidi Rahal nodules is opal-CT, a poorly crystalline form of silica. The red to red-brown layer gets its colour from the iron oxides hematite and goethite, and the core is chalcedony.
True amethyst is quartz coloured purple by traces of iron combined with natural radiation. Where it appears in these geodes, it forms a pale lilac druse over the pink and red chalcedony.
Each geode has a red agate rim and pink-red botryoidal chalcedony, some with pale amethyst druse.
In crystal traditions, pink amethyst is associated with intuition and a gentle, nurturing energy.
Chemical Composition: SiO2
Chakra: Higher Heart, Crown and Third Eye
Approximate size (1 piece):
Metric: Height 6 cm · Width 5 cm · Depth 4 cm
Imperial: Height 2.4 in · Width 2 in · Depth 1.6 in
Approximate Weight for 1 piece: 100g
Quantity: 1pc
We do our best to buy quality products- although not every rock is the same. If you choose to purchase the "staff pick option", we will select the best of the batch for you. Otherwise, it will be at random from the larger batch we have in stock.